title: Bone scan and red blood cell scan in a patient with epidermal naevus syndrome.
abstract: A bone scan and red blood cell scan in the rare epidermal naevus syndrome, associated with multiple haemangiomas of the bone and hypophosphataemic osteomalacia in a 20-year-old man are reported. The typical pattern of osteomalacia on the bone scan was associated with lesions of increased bone metabolism in the peripheral bones. The haemangiomas did not pool labelled red blood cells. Thus, the bone scan seems to be suitable for diagnosing the complete extent of haemangiomas in bone, but they could not be specifically proven by red blood cell pooling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stosiek
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004912:Erythrocytes; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives
chemical_list: C024226:technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate